Today is Loving Day!

[randomness]

I'd almost forgotten, but browngirl's post reminded me.

"Today, June 12, is the 41st anniversary of the decision in Loving vs Virginia, the decision that legalized interracial marriage in the entirety of the United States".

Happy Loving Day!

Comments

[sukitawdry.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link--very nice resource!

[evilmagnus]

It's kinda scary to think that, had denyse and I married 33 years earlier, our union would have been Illegal as well as Unholy!

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

yaaaaay!

I, too, find it disturbing how recent this is.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

What's noteworthy to me is both how recent and how taken for granted it is.

[dana325.livejournal.com]

yeah, it is pretty disturbing. When Frank was born our marriage wouldn't have been legal in a good part of the country. It does give me hope that maybe our children will feel this way about same sex marriage though!

I just did a little more reading..Massachusetts had legalized interracial marriage in 1843.

Only Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alaska, Hawaii, and the federal District of Columbia never enacted anti-miscegenation laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws

[belfrynotes.livejournal.com]

The closeness of much of our ugly history is amazing. I once met a man whose father had been born a slave. We have come far, but not far enough. I am happy that legally, at least, couples who happen to look different are not discriminated against. Race is such a weird construct. We are all people, after all. (Well, except for InThatOneWay....)

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Now our job is to make sure that couples who happen to look the same are not discriminated against.

I often feel demoralized about how little progress we've made (if there has been any forward motion at all) against various isms in the last 20 years. It's nice to be reminded that we have certainly come a long way in the last 50 years, at least. It gives me hope that another wave of progress might be coming.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

This is definetely my hope as well.

[plaidsheep.livejournal.com]

hoooray!!!

We can fix the laws, but we're still battling the bigotry in this country.

A colleague of mine is marrying his beloved next year. He still treads lightly with strangers about this because some members of HER family (old, white money) have made him feel awkward about it.

I'm hoping for the day when people are TRULY free to marry who they choose, without laws OR bigots trying to interfere.